In Syria, the pilot Ragida Tatar was awarded an honorary award for refusing to fulfill the order of the Syrian regime on the bombardment of civilians in the city of Ham during the reign of Hafuz Assad.
For his act, the Syrian in 1982 was sentenced to prison for a period of 43 years. Then he was 27 years old.
Ragida was released after the overthrow of the BAAS party regime.
Syrian activists published personnel on which the imam of the mosque in the boor on behalf of the townspeople gives Tatari a sword embedded with a gold. The ceremony took place after Friday prayer
Imam of the mosque, Sheikh Muaz Raidan called the gift “a symbolic reward for spending more than half of his life in the dungeons of the regime”.